Category: Golf

The PGA Tour is back on the mainland this week for The American Express at PGA West in Palm Springs, Calif. The field includes five of the top 12 golfers in the Official World Golf Rankings. Jon Rahm is the heavy favorite at +600 on BetMGM after opening at +550. However, Rahm only accounts for…

The PGA Tour heads to California this weekend to play the 2023 American Express. The tournament is played at three different courses: PGA West Stadium Course, PGA West Nicklaus Course and La Quinta Country Club. Therefore, each golfer will play two rounds at PGA West Stadium Course, one round at PGA West Nicklaus Course, and…

The stars might be aligning for Hayden Buckley to capture his first PGA Tour title. The 26-year-old enters the Sony Open’s final round with a two-shot lead over the field. Buckley ranks as one of only three golfers this week who has graded inside the top 68% of competitors daily in ball striking returns. He…

We turned into the weekend at The Sony Open with the top three players on the odds boards having packed their bags, leaving behind a lot of unknown as to how some players would handle being at the top of the leaderboard. That inexperience showed quickly as 36-hole leader Chris Kirk, looking for his first…

It has been an interesting start to the Sony Open on virtually all levels. We saw Sungjae Im and Tom Kim, the two betting favorites, meekly bow out before the weekend — and that’s before we even get to what transpired with Jordan Spieth and his five-over Friday implosion to move from the first-round lead…

It would be an understatement to suggest there aren’t many proven winners in contention at the Sony Open entering the final two rounds. Sure, there’s Chris Kirk and his four PGA Tour victories atop the board, but the most recent of those wins happened nearly eight years ago. Despite finding water off the tee on…

The PGA Tour is in Hawaii for the second consecutive week, but the two venues couldn’t be further from one another in terms of the statistical metrics. Waialae Country Club, the host of this week’s event, provides a flat, methodical setup — vastly different than last weekend’s course, which often turned into a wide-open paradise.…

The PGA Tour spends its second consecutive week in Hawaii as it moves from Maui to Honolulu this week for the Sony Open at Waialae Country Club. I don’t love any players with current odds of 60/1 or more to win the tournament, so I’ve included a pair of sleeper picks on players to finish…

I was fully prepared to send all the praise on Collin Morikawa after he was blitzing the field through the first 60 holes of the week and looked set to cruise to victory Sunday. Instead, Jon Rahm had other plans and put together a 10-under round. Rahm got some help via Morikawa’s first three bogeys…

What do you get when you take the top pre-tournament proximity player in my model, give him an 89% GIR rate through three rounds and then allow him to gain 5.965 shots to the field with his putter? A bogey-free start to the event is what Collin Morikawa has deemed to be the answer. Morikawa…

There were many big stories on TOUR last season and one of the more shocking ones was Collin Morikawa’s winless year. He looks ready to quickly put that to rest in 2023 as he stormed to a six-shot lead through the first three rounds of this year’s opening event. He pulled away from the likes…

The 2023 PGA Tour season is underway from Hawaii as last season’s winners, and the rest of the players who made it to East Lake, have gathered at the Kapalua Plantation Course for the Tournament of Champions. We saw several players go low in the opening round as they chase the tournament record of 35-under…

Sentry Tournament of Champions Odds Odds via Caesars and as of Sunday at 6:15 p.m. ET. Golfer Odds Jon Rahm +800 Scottie Scheffler +1000 Xander Schauffele +1000 Justin Thomas +1000 Patrick Cantlay +1200 Viktor Hovland +1800 Tony Finau +1800 Tom Kim +1800 Matthew Fitzpatrick +1800 Sungjae Im +1800 Collin Morikawa +1800 Jordan Spieth +2000 Cam…

It’s a new year and the return of PGA Tour golf will be here Thursday. Things kick off from Kapalua in typical fashion at the Sentry Tournament of Champions. As usual, we get a strong field featuring many of the winners from last season. Additionally, this year is the inaugural year where all players who…

The best golfers in the world are back in action this week, as they head to the Bahamas for the Hero World Challenge. With just 20 players in the tournament, it is the smallest field of the PGA Tour season. World ranking points and FedEx Cup points will still be up for grabs, as six…

With the Hero World Challenge being the final event of the 2022 season that I’m covering here at Action Network, I just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who has taken some time out of their day to read my articles over the past few months. I realize that the ability to view…

Tiger Woods was set to play in his first PGA TOUR-sanctioned event since The Open Championship in July. Those plans have been tarnished. He announced on Monday that he is withdrawing from the Hero World Challenge due to plantar fasciitis in his foot. “In my preparation and practice for this week’s Hero World Challenge, I’ve…

The third round of The RSM Classic didn’t do much to separate anyone from the field as there are 25 players within four shots of the shared lead, which is held by Patrick Rodgers and Ben Martin. They shot 5- and 6-under rounds, respectively, which were only bested by Adam Svensson, who shot an 8-under…

With another questionable board for wagers on Sunday, let’s use my model’s long-term information to see if we can narrow this player pool into a compact list of options. I have yet to encounter a final-round leaderboard with as many glaring outsiders (when it comes to my pre-event research) as we are getting here, but…

The RSM Classic took off in a big way on Friday as the leaderboard bunched up at the top with three players tied for the lead. That includes fan favorite Harry Higgs, who shot a 7-under on the more difficult Seaside Course. He tied first round leader Cole Hammer at the top and they were…

The final full-field tournament of 2022 kicked off Thursday from Sea Island, Georgia and, as is often the case in the fall swing, a young name sits at the top of the leaderboard after the first round. Cole Hammer took advantage of the typically easier Plantation Course with an 8-under 64. The strange thing is…

With the last full-field tournament of the 2022 season upon us this week at The RSM Classic, there will hopefully be ample opportunities available for us to take advantage of throughout the week if we shop around. That hope remains present amongst a board that has shifted for the worse in value over the past…

The RSM Classic Odds Click arrow to expand 2022 RSM Classic odds via bet365 Player Name Odds Brian Harman +2000 Seamus Power +2500 Tom Hoge +2500 Jason Day +2500 Taylor Montgomery +2800 Keith Mitchell +3100 Denny McCarthy +3300 Joel Dahmen +3300 Mackenzie Hughes +3600 Matthew Nesmith +3600 Andrew Putnam +4000 Sahith Theegala +4500 Davis Riley…

The PGA TOUR stops at St. Simons Island, Georgia this week for The RSM Classic. There’s already plenty of controversy surrounding this event before they even tee off. This PGA TOUR event has no player in the top 25 of the Official World Golf Rankings after Tony Finau withdrew on Tuesday after winning last week’s…

Tony Finau is in sole possession of first place and holds a four-stroke lead (15-under) following the third round of the Cadence Bank Houston Open. Now, we look forward to Sunday’s fourth round, which features plenty of prop angles to attack on PrizePicks. Below, I give out my five PrizePicks flex plays for the fourth round of…

With Tony Finau leading by four shots over Ben Taylor and seven strokes over Tyson Alexander, Justin Rose and Wyndham Clark, let’s look for other routes to gain exposure to the board in round four. There are a handful of golfers in DFS contests or head-to-head matchups who we should consider in some capacity, so…

It was a long day of golf on Saturday at the Houston Open as about half of the field had to finish the second round before rolling into Round 3. Tony Finau held the lead throughout the day and has a four-shot lead going into the final round. Finau didn’t have the dominant 62 that…

Weather cut the second round short on Friday in Houston, but it wasn’t enough to stop Tony Finau, who took control of this event with an 8-under 62. He holds a four-shot edge over Patrick Rodgers, but much of the afternoon wave is still on the course. It all sets up for a long day…

We are slowly getting through the first 36 holes of the Houston Open, though play had to be halted for the second straight day before the conclusion of the round — this time because of inclement weather that forced a sudden suspension for nearly half the field. Tony Finau holds a four-shot lead at 13-under…

The return to the states means a return to ShotLink and strokes gained data, which gets us back to the traditional buys and fades this week. Four players are at the top in SG: Total to start the week as Tony Finau headlines the group of players at 5-under after the opening round. However, Alexander…

I have talked a lot this week about the Houston Open being an inferior betting board in most avenues of the market, but that doesn’t mean we can’t find value if we shop around. The reason sports betting remains a profitable game for those that put in the research is because of the plethora of…

Click arrow to expand 2022 Cadence Bank Houston Open odds via BetMGM Player Name Odds Scottie Scheffler +600 Sam Burns +1400 Aaron Wise +1800 Tony Finau +1800 Hideki Matsuyama +2500 Maverick McNealy +2500 Russell Henley +2500 Taylor Montgomery +2500 Jason Day +2800 Davis Riley +4000 Denny McCarthy +4000 Joel Dahmen +4000 Sahith Theegala +4000 Alex…

The PGA TOUR is in Texas this week for the Cadence Bank Houston Open. For a tournament in November, there are some big-time names in the field. World No. 2 Scottie Scheffler is in the field playing in his home state. He’s the clear favorite at BetMGM at +600. Sam Burns and Tony Finau–both among…

The PGA TOUR heads down to Mexico for the World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba this week. This is a much-improved field over last week as four of the world’s top 14 golfers are in the field including Scottie Scheffler, Collin Morikawa, Viktor Hovland and Tony Finau. Scheffler, Morikawa and Finau have all received significant…